clogged epson heads?

[ol man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf6kOEtgQqE

enjoy!

[ebscreen]

Hahahah, anyone who has ever used any Epson has been there.

That said, the x900 series Epsons are earning a reputation for un-fixable nozzle clogs.
On one photography board there is a 42 page thread of a guy trying to fix a nozzle clog on a 7900, involves
shady back-alley deals with Epson parts distributors, etc. Spoiler: he doesn't ever fix it.

I'll stick with x000 series.

[mk162]

great...maybe this is why printers are moving away from the i-image cts...it's the 7900.  The nice thing is you can print with as few as one channel, so as long as that one is good you are set.

[GraphicDisorder]

LOL

[3Deep]

I thought that was pretty stupid, I see being mad , I would have sold it as is and got some money from it.

[kingscreen]

I thought that was pretty stupid, I see being mad , I would have sold it as is and got some money from it.

Yeah, I hate being the Debbie Downer in the room but this was just wasteful. Plenty of parts that could have been salvaged.
I've sold a number of old Epson's "for parts" and made a decent amount of cash from them.

[Gilligan]

I'm pretty sure this guy got to this point with this printer.

[blue moon]

or he filed a claim with his insurance (it is a $10K printer after all) and they told him to destroy it after receiving the payment . . .

pierre

[GaryG]

Yeah, not too many people are going to do that~

Jeff is probably well off, but it is definitely the principle of the thing.
I was anticipating a monster truck coming out of the garage and flattening it.

[Prosperi-Tees]

I was hoping for an AK-47 myself

[jsheridan]

I thought that was pretty stupid, I see being mad , I would have sold it as is and got some money from it.

If it were personal item, maybe. We're talking about work machines here, machines that make you money.
Would the time it took to go through all the  motions to sell it, actually be worth your time? Could you have used that same time in a more productive manner to make more money.

We've got a room full of wide format Mimaki's that do our dye sublimation all over work. 6 of them run full time 24/7.

When one decides to stop working, it's simply rolled out of the way into the fix it pile for the new 'spare' one to take it's place.

With the time and cost to repair these machines, We have determined that replacing it, is more cost effective than trying to repair them.


Jeff from our video, I'm sure is in the same boat. In the time it took to call tech, get, ship and install the new head along with the $1900 in cost just to get the machine back up and running may have actually cost him more in lost time and product than to simply drop a new machine in it's place.

[shirtz]

Who hasn't ever been there before. Well played sir!